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Title: Frank Girard's attraction. A cold day when we get left
Creator: Thomas, Henry Atwell, 1834-1904, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1879
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1889
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of caricature full-length portraits of comedians Frank Wills, Frank Girard, and Charles Burke, with weather thermometers in place of their torsos, holding canes and Japanese fans while dancing in a row on a glacier with a ship against an iceberg in the background; date sheet for a January 21, [1885], show, presumably at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted to bottom of image; the poster advertises the comedy "A Cold Day When We Get Left" written by Joseph Arthur.
Probable date based on month and day in date sheet and printer history; Thomas operated from 47 E. 12th St. in 1884 and 1885. A Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper advertised Girard and the play at the Fulton Opera House on January 21, 1885 (Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, 19 January 1885, page 4). "H.A. Thomas Lith. 47 E. 12th St. N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. Frank Wills [space] Frank Girard [space] Charles Burke"--text, captions at bottom of image. "Opera House/ A / Cold / Day / One night only / Wednesday, / Jan. 21 / When / We / Get Left."--text, date sheet, attached to bottom of poster.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 50.17 x 76.99 cm (19 3/4 x 30 5/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_001876
449799
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2662
Subject: Burke, Charles--Portraits
Girard, Frank, 1840-1900--Portraits
Wills, Frank--Portraits
Actors--Portraits
Actors--Pictorial works
Caricatures and cartoons
Comedians--Portraits
Comedies
Icebergs--Pictorial works
Theatrical productions
Fulton Opera House
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Place: Lancaster (Pa.)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Music and Theater
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: priJLC_ENT_000187

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